Club Cricket 2024-25

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Kian blignaut captaining the Taka 2 side against Taka 1.

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Marshmallow wrote:
Sat Jun 07, 2025 8:56 am
Kian blignaut captaining the Taka 2 side against Taka 1.
Looks like such a rake.

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*Raza Suffers Racist Abuse*


By Austin Karonga, The Standard - ZIMBABWE'S T20 captain, Sikandar Raza, has lodged a formal complaint with the Harare Metropolitan Cricket Association (HMCA) alleging racial abuse during a Vigne Cup match played at Old Hararians Sports Club on June 1.

The Old Hararians player claims that Rainbow Cricket Club coach, Blessing Mafuwa, hurled racial slurs at him. OH won that encounter by 142 runs DLS method after the match was reduced to 39 overs and a revised target of 368 runs.

OH batted first, scored 402/9 in their allotted overs, Raza scoring 78 from 56 before restricting Rainbow to 228/8.

Raza recounts the distressing incident.

"While I was leaving the field due to muscle tightness, Mafuwa screamed and shouted at me. Despite my pleas for him to speak respectfully, he continued to abuse me. What hurt the most was when he said, 'I can say whatever I want, I have a Zimbabwean passport, not a Pakistani passport like Raza. This is my land, not Pakistan."

Raza, who has represented Zimbabwe for 13 years, was incensed by alleged racist remarks made in the presence of national teammates playing for their respective clubs.

"After 23 years in this country and 14 years as a citizen, I was subjected to racist remarks in front of players of various races. This is unacceptable," added Raza in his letter of complaint to the HMCA chairperson Tafadzwa Madoro.

The star all-rounder demanded severe punishment, emphasising the gravity of the situation.

"I request stern action against Mafuwa for abusing a national player and captain with racial slurs," he said.

HMCA has noted Raza's complaint with concern.

"We are investigating the matter and will convene a disciplinary meeting after receiving a written response from the alleged coach," said chairperson Madoro.

As Zimbabwe Cricket and the ICC uphold a zero-tolerance policy towards racism, Raza's plea for justice resonates deeply.

The ICC's Anti-Discrimination Policy clearly states that no person shall be offended, insulted, or discriminated against based on their race, religion, or nationality.

It reads: "No person shall at any time offend, insult, humiliate, threaten, disparage, vilify or unlawfully discriminate between persons based on their race, religion, culture, colour, descent, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status and maternity status." The Standard

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What happens when Naqvi plays for Zimbabwe then? When Raza gets these types of racism, Naqvi and his team should be very careful 8-)

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I wonder what that was all about? I'll guarantee beer was involved.
Why not mention what was said? As annoying as f£& off back to Pakistan is, it surely can't be the worst that was said.
We get "go back to Britain" daily :lol: its like acid off a duck's back. :lol:
Blessing may be the first black dude to be done for racism in 40 years. :lol:
Frank will be trembling :lol:

I thought Raza would be playing for Takashinga this season. Maybe he'll jump ship when NPL starts because OH are very unlikely to qualify. I see OH have some good sponsorship from Energy Park. There was a split amongst the Indian/Pakistani community and some guys went to Alex.

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Mafuwa must have an account on the forum :lol:

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I wonder why Blignaut didn't turn out for Takas 2 today?
He probably lives this side of town and it would have been a 5 minute drive :lol:
One day in the distant future people will be given opportunities based on skills rather than playing politics.

Why would they keep batting Gimu at 7 in Takas 1 when he's clearly better than that.

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When do we start talking about Alister Frost as a genuine allrounder?

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Quality bat and improving all the time. Just a guess but typical Zim speed of 125-130, which is not great. He's reasonably accurate though, but doesnt get the ball to do too much just yet. He's an absolute gun reaction fielder, he's taken some amazing catches.

He didn't get much time bowling in franchise, more of a first change or fill-in bowler, but I'd say will get more time this upcoming season, which could be a break-out season for him.

He and Evans are an interesting comparison. Ali is a batting all-rounder and Brad is a bowling all-rounder. If I had to pick out of the two for one spot it would be Brad simply because nobody comes close to his control, plus I can see he could actually be a good batsman, all the ability in the world, but gets it wrong with shot selection. Hes running out of excuses for that.
If Ali keeps improving he will start becoming relevant just as batter, but if he worked on his bowling, found 5kph somewhere and found the right areas all the time he would be impossible to ignore. Id like to see the two of them, Gimu and Higgins play in the same game so you see them all at once. Higgins would probably edge it purely because he' played a higher standard of cricket for a long time, but not much in it.
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